Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

While we're on the subject of hard work, I wanted
to say that I was a man to work.

I was born working and I my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I out
and been busted, disgusted and couldn't be trusted.

I worked my way up and I worked my way down.
been drunk and been sober. I've had hard times
and I got and been robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way jail and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta and I didn't even know where I was at.

But the hardest work I ever done is when I was
to get myself a worried woman to ease my
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you just how much hard
work I had to do to get here woman that I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I shook hands with 97 of her and her blood
relatives and I the same with 86 people that was
just her and her neighbors.

73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and the When thing several times, as well
as a lot of other things just like this.

I held 125 head of wild horses, put and bridles
on than that, harnessed some of the craziest,
wildest teams in the whole country. I rode 14
broncos to a standstill and let 42 hound dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by hungry and I was chewed
all to pieces by water and rattlesnakes on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I carried 314 arm of stoved
wood; 100 of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 and lost a good pair of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I 48 rows of short cotton,
13 acres of bad and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a I wanted to
her that I was a man and I liked to work

I cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all makes and models, pulled 3 out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of water for of her friends and
and run all kinds of errands.

I played the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the best trade I could find and paid
my about 6 weeks ahead of time, waded 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain ranges and 3 deserts.

I got the and I got the sun stroke and I got the
malaria and I got the flu and I got and
skeeter bit, the ivy and the 7 year itch and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
by lightning, struck by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as well as by 3 on
the highways and a times in peoples'
henhouses.

I been hit and run down and run and
walked on and around and I'm just
settin' here now trying to up what else I
can do to that woman that I still ain't afraid
of work.